Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — Passenger Pigeons Returning. [ARTICLE]

Passenger Pigeons Returning.

John Burroughs, the author naturalist, reports that he has seen this season a flock of more than a hundred of the passenger wild pigeons In the? highlands of ths Hudson. This bird, which was once the characteristic of the American woods and which migrated in vast flocks sometimes ten miles in length, about one-quar-ter of a century ago, failed to report in their haunts. What became of them is a mystery to this day. One theory was that they had been swept out .o sea on soma terrific gale.